<font size="+1">International Symposium</font> <br><i>Advances in Dark Matter and Particle Physics</i> 2016

23 Oct 2016, 18:00 → 27 Oct 2016, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Messina (Italy)

International Symposium
Advances in Dark Matter and Particle Physics 2016
Will focus on the latest results of running experiments and new ideas in dark matter and dark force searches at accelerators.

Organized by:
University of Messina
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
Fondazione Bonino-Pulejo (Messina)

Sunday 23 October

Registration

Welcome Reception

Monday 24 October

Opening

DM Invisible Search

Convener: Marco Battaglieri (GE)

1 Status of positron extracted beams

Speaker: Paolo Valente (ROMA1)

Slides admpp_valente.pptx

2 PADME at LNF experiment

Speaker: Mauro Raggi (ROMA1)

Slides RaggiADMPP.pptx

3 Dark Searches and Gamma Gamma Physics at KLOE

Speaker: Dr Francesca Curciarello (Dipartimento di Fisica-Università di Messina)

Slides Curciarello_ADMPP16.pdf

4 Status of the experiment on dark photon search at VEPP-3

Speaker: Dr Igor Rachek

Slides rachek_admpp.pdf

11:10 Coffee Break

5 Overview of ALICE results on hadronic resonance production

Speaker: Angela Badala' (CT)

Slides ADMPP_Badala_v4.pdf

Physics at Colliders

Convener: Prof. Henryk Czyz (Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Silesia)

6 The Physics of Hadronic Tau decays

Speaker: Emilie Passemar (Indiana University/JLab)

Slides EPassemar_Messina.pdf

7 Light mesons at BES3

Speaker: Shuangshi Fang (Inistitute of High Energy Physics)

Slides LMD-BESIII-Messina.pdf

13:30 Lunch Break

8 Bg in annihilation/fixed target experiment

Speaker: Prof. Venelin Kozhuharov (Univerity of Sofia "St. Kl. Ohridski")

Slides 2016-10-24_Venelin.pdf

Tools

Convener: Paolo Valente (ROMA1)

9 Geant4 Standard and Low Energy EM libraries

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Geant4EmStLowE.pdf

10 Monte Carlo generators for hadron physics: updates on Phokhara and Ekhara generators

Speaker: Prof. Henryk Czyz (Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Silesia)

Slides czyz_messina.pdf

11 Radiative corrections in e+e- collisions with the BabaYaga Event Generator

Speaker: Carlo M. Carloni Calame (PV)

Slides carloni_1.pdf

Discussion

16:45 Coffee Break

Public lecture

In Italian

12 Una Luminosa Fabbrica di Materia Oscura

Speaker: Marco Battaglieri (GE)

Slides PL-Me2016-battaglieri.pdf

Tuesday 25 October

13 APEX experiment at JLab which will take production data in spring 2018

Speaker: Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides APEX_Messina_Franklin.pdf

DM Fixed Target

Convener: Jim Alexander (Cornell University)

14 The HPS Experiments

Speaker: Marzio De Napoli (CT)

Slides denapoli_messina2016.pdf

15 The Beam Dump Experiment (BDX) @ JLAB

Speaker: Mariangela Bondi (CT)

Slides ADMPP16_bondi.pdf

16 The Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX)

Speaker: Prof. Jeremiah Mans

Slides DarkMessina_10_2016_LDMX_Mans.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

17 JLab dark photon search experiment APEX and the speed of light anisotropy investigation

Speaker: Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (TJNAF)

Slides One-way_speed_of_light-Messina.pptx.pdf

DM at Colliders

Convener: Dr Vladimir Druzhinin (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)

18 MMAPS at Cornell

Speaker: Jim Alexander (Cornell University)

Slides MMAPS_-_Messina_Workshop.pdf

19 Recent results on search for new physics at BABAR

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Oberhof (LNF)

Slides ADMPP_Oberhof_v3.pdf

13:30 Lunch Break

Extended Searches

Convener: Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (TJNAF)

20 The 8Be anomaly and the fifth force

Speaker: Prof. Attila Krasznahorkay (Inst. of Nucl. Res. of the Hung. Acad. of Sci. (ATOMKI), Head, Division of Nuclear Physics)

Slides Krasznahorkay-Messina.pptx

21 Protophobic Fifth Force

Speaker: Iftah Galon

Slides Galon_Protophobic_2016.pdf

22 Measuring gravitational effects on antimatter in space

Speaker: Prof. Giovanni Maria Piacentino (INFN sezione di Lecce)

16:30 Coffee Break

Round Table & Discussion

20:30 Social Dinner

Wednesday 26 October

23 DM at Asimmetric Colliders

Speaker: Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (TJNAF)

Slides VAC_Messina_2016.pptx.pdf

Extended Search

Convener: Venelin Kozhuharov (Univerity of Sofia "St. Kl. Ohridski")

24 General features of spontaneous baryogenesis

Speaker: Mrs Elena Arbuzova (University "Dubna")

Slides Messina-ArbuzovaE.pdf

25 Searching for Dark Matter Candidates with Compton Gamma-Sources

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Afanasev (George Washington University)

Slides Afanasev-Messina16.pdf

26 Positronium studies within the QUPLAS experiment

Speaker: Stefano Aghion (MI)

Slides QUPLAS_Messina_AMDPP.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

27 Problems with the sources of the observed gravitational waves and their resolution

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Dolgov (FE)

Slides messina-GW-prblms.pdf

SM and Beyond

Convener: Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)

28 Excited lepton baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr Dmitry Zhuridov (University of Silesia)

Slides zhuridov_10-2016_messina.pdf

29 A high performance tracker in the forward angle experiments

Speaker: Prof. Nilanga Liyanage (University of Virginia)

Slides Forward_Tracking__Messina.pdf

13:30 Lunch Break

(g-2)mu Anomaly / Colliders

Convener: Mauro Raggi (ROMA1)

30 Measuring the Leading Order Hadronic Contribution to the Muon g-2 in the Space-like Region

Speaker: Carlo M. Carloni Calame (PV)

Slides carloni_2.pdf

31 chi_c1 and chi_c2 production at e+e- colliders

Speaker: Szymon Tracz

Slides messina_tracz.pdf

32 Recent results from the CMD-3 detector

Speaker: Mr Aleksandr Popov (Budker Institute Of Nuclear Physics (BINP))

Slides aspopov_messina2016.pptx

16:20 Coffee Break

PADME/MMPAS closed meeting

Thursday 27 October

Physics at Colliders / Low Energy

Convener: Dr Giuseppe Mandaglio (Department of Physics - University of Messina and INFN Sezione di Catania)

33 Study of e+e- annihilation to hadrons at low energies at BABAR

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Druzhinin (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)

Paper druzhinin.pdf

Slides druzhinin_admpp2016.pdf

34 Recent results from the SND detector

Speaker: Dr Aleksandr KOROL (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)

Slides korol-messina-2016-1.pdf

35 The End Point Tagger physics program at A2@MAMI – η’ and others

Speaker: Mr Oliver Steffen (Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Mainz)

Slides o.steffen_EPT_physics_program_at_a2_at_mami.pdf

36 Doubly-polarised pion photoproduction on the nucleon at MAMI

Speaker: Susanna Costanza (PV)

Slides Costanza_ADMPP16.pdf

37 Compton Scattering Program Studying Nucleon Polarizabilities

Speaker: Philippe Martel

Slides Messina_2016_pmartel.pdf

Closout

11:20 Coffee Break